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Its been on and off, but its driving me to the funny farm. When I hit Command-Spacebar, I lose focus on whatever I'm typing, The dashboard menuling goes inverted, but I get no sheet (or whatever you would call that). If I type anyway and hit enter, spotlight sometimes still works normally, and pulls up the spotlight results window (which I think should be a finder window, so it persists after you open something and it turns out to be wrong, but thats just personal preference).

I'm now getting this, but only since 10.4.4. Only difference is Spotlight isn't working for me at all when using CMD+Spacebar. If I use Shift+CMD+Spacebar, I get the Finder window version and that works... But the upper right Menuling doesn't work anymore.

Prior to 10.4.x command-space was used by the International Input Menu to switch keyboards. Go to System Preferences>International>Input Menu to see if it has been reset and then choose the Keyboard Shortcuts... option to alter either the Spotlight shortcuts or the Input Menu shortcuts:

Actually, I just tried mine now and I have a problem too, pressing control-space (my shortcut for Spotlight) leads to the blue highlight appearing, but no drop down. Console.log has this in it when I do... obviously something is borked:

Must be a bug. What is happening is that the menu is appearing off screen. If you use your keyboard shortcut to activate the Spotlight menu, you can actually still type a search and press enter to bring up the search window...

Once you have done this though, what you can't do is click the Spotlight icon any longer to start a search.

Thanks TETENAL, did the trick. Looking at the old .plist (to work out which menu items I had installed after the reset so I could restore them) before I trashed it, for some reason I had four entries for the CPU.item even though I had removed it some time ago. Very odd.

Figured I'd bump this thread as it's been well over a month. The bug is still there for me and I hesitate to reinstall the OS just for this stupid problem. I've gone back to using CMD+Spacebar for LaunchBar until a fix is found.

Other than trashing the SystemUIServer .plist(s), has anyone else found a solution for this?